It is clear that the old left-versus-right duality, or dichotomy, the lens through which we have been asked to view American politics, is really dead—or rather, we can see that it is a distraction. Many ordinary citizens these days say that they don’t see much difference between the two major political parties or the positions of what seem more and more these days to be the candidates subject to coronation by the special interests. The understanding that we are in a time in which the real conflicts are not conservative versus liberal, but the many against the few, is becoming far more widespread.
